Lori Alexander: 64: Continuing the Sardines into the Next Generation

[Lgirlrocks]

Bull shit. My gyno who is a Christian says the studies done on bc aren’t good studies because all they do is say this percent of people on bc had this happen. They don’t take two groups, one on bc and one not, keep them on the same health plan and see what happens. Most women that get cancer that have been on bc get it because it’s the age when most women get cancer. Bc does help with the symptoms. There isn’t a cure for most things just things you can take to help. 

[EowynW]

Sadly this is a very common view. My mom believes the same. If i hesr "faith over fear" one more time time  ?

[lilith]

9 minutes ago, EowynW said:

Sadly this is a very common view. My mom believes the same. If i hesr "faith over fear" one more time time  ?

I’m pretty sure a baby is one of the most unwanted side effects of any contraceptive method.

I’m thrilled to finally have my tubes tied and be off the hormonal contraceptives merry go round, but until you’re at a point in your life where permanent contraception becomes an option it’s just something you have to deal with. I’m taking my daughter in to get an implant soon as her relationship with her boyfriend gets more serious, cause much as it may suck to have to deal with hormonal side effects it sucks a lot less than an unwanted baby or an abortion in high school.

[smittykins]

“NFP has no side effects(except maybe a baby)” 

[Blessings of the Corn]

UGH. She's INFURIATING. "Flames, flames on the side of my face".

As my gyno says, "natural is great, if it works". I never felt more balanced then when I went on hormonal BC again, 2 yeas ago. I suffer from awful hormonal imbalances/PCOS and BC has been life changing for me.

 

She can SHOVE it.

[Briefly]

20 hours ago, livinglongerthanyou said:

We got on planes by ourselves as children to go and visit extended family during the summer. My dad worked for an airline which, back then (starting in the 60s), offered all kinds of perks for their employees, including flying for free. My dad, who is loud and funny, would help us find our seats on the plane and then loudly proclaim, "And don't come back!" 

When we were pre-teens, we disembarked with great trepidation because you never knew what he was up too. One time he wore a gorilla suit to meet my sister. She tried, and failed, to run back up the down escalator. 

I am so thankful for those wonderful experiences because he helped to build strength, confidence and a wonderful wanderlust in us. 

Lori said she promised to never send her kids to summer camp. What a shame. I was a camper and a counselor at camp and that time comprises many of my fondest memories. I learned how to swim with confidence, how to canoe whitewater, how to eat my bodyweight in smores, how to prank the boys camp, how to get along with others and so much more. Being at camp instilled what was to become a lifelong love affair with flat water paddling and wilderness camping. 

As a counselor I was privileged to witness kids blossom and grow in confidence. They often arrived at camp feeling unsure and a little frightened, but by the end of camp we had to peel them off us as they rushed in for one last hug. I worked with many abused and many impoverish, ed children and parents told us that camp changed their children's lives for the better. I even spent two summers at a camp for children with cancer and their siblings. That was intense but made me a much better person.

Kids need time away from their families to grow and to learn. I feel sorry for these fundie children who are completely unprepared for adult life. 

Your dad sounds like he was really fun!

I never traveled alone to visit anybody, my grandparents on my mom's side died before I was born, on my dad's side my grandfather died when I was very young and we always made a family trip at least once a year to see my grandmother.  But my brother & his first wife sent their daughter to see all the grandparents every summer, my brother was in the Navy and they were stationed in a few places.  When my daughter got old enough, I don't really remember but I want to say around 10 or 12?, we sent her to see Mr. Briefly's mom and my family a few times.  At first, we did pay the extra fee to the airline to have her escorted through for her connecting flight. She had a great time!  We also were bad parents because we let her go to summer camp a few times.  It was church camps, but she enjoyed it.  And she was fine!

[EowynW]

LMAO hypocrites. 

[FullOfGravy]

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signs that you have... hormonal balancing to do

And you know what can help when your body's hormones are out-of-whack?  Balancing them with the help of hormonal birth control.

It doesn't help me personally - every kind of HBC I've tried, including a Mirena, has triggered a major depressive episode to the point where I ended up unable to function - but it does help a lot of women with endometriosis or PCOS or PMDD or any number of issues.

[wallysmommy]

She's telling women to sacrifice everything to be a "keeper at home" including running water, but then she recommends that they see a Naturopath, which I'm sure doesn't come cheap.  Rich bitch privilege in action.

[Chocolatedefrauded]

49 minutes ago, FullOfGravy said:

It doesn't help me personally - every kind of HBC I've tried, including a Mirena, has triggered a major depressive episode to the point where I ended up unable to function - but it does help a lot of women with endometriosis or PCOS or PMDD or any number of issues.

We are dealing with something similar now. My 14 year old has had very heavy periods, like needing ER visits & discussing transfusions heavy. Going on a heavy dose pill schedule helped the periods but led, we think, to crippling anxiety and daily panic attacks. It’s been very rough for the last 4-5 months and we are worried about her. The minute she stop HBC, the heavy periods start. It’s like she can’t win.

[yeetedonem]

Hormonal birth control may actually lower the risk of ovarian cancer - Link to study

[Sarah92]

If I find out one of my kiddos (counseling clients) don't have running water at their home I call DCFS. I understand poverty but if it's at the point where the water bill can't be paid, it's most likely to the point that other needs aren't being met. During the winter some of my kiddos took showers every other day to conserve water but they got clean. 

I swear these guys don't understand that some of what she promotes will put their child at risk for being taken away. If I found out a parent let their child sit around with a 104 degree fever, hit them with a leather strap, etc I'd be looking at reporting that as well 

[Melissa1977]

Hormonal birth control has been showed as freedom for women. But some feminists have another view on that. Hormonal birth control actually has side effects (and had a lot back in the 60's), so women eventually sacrifice her health while men can enjoy unprotected sex.

I've been in the pill for years. But I decided to stop years ago. No more drugs and hormones. Condoms are cheap, clean and safe. And put responsability in men, too. 

I understand other views. And of course I know some women cannot trust their partners or that they have situations in which pills help. But when I was young I got sick of men saying they didn't like condoms or that couldn't enjoy sex using condoms and putting all the responsability on my shoulders. I think they were mostly self-centered.

[klein_roeschen]

13 hours ago, Alisamer said:

Send Lori on a vacation to live with the Nauglers for a week or two, and see how she feels then. 

I would pay to see that (as a livestream, not in a million years would I go near the Naugler compound without a biohazard suit)

[lilith]

1 hour ago, Melissa1977 said:

Hormonal birth control has been showed as freedom for women. But some feminists have another view on that. Hormonal birth control actually has side effects (and had a lot back in the 60's), so women eventually sacrifice her health while men can enjoy unprotected sex.

I've been in the pill for years. But I decided to stop years ago. No more drugs and hormones. Condoms are cheap, clean and safe. And put responsability in men, too. 

I understand other views. And of course I know some women cannot trust their partners or that they have situations in which pills help. But when I was young I got sick of men saying they didn't like condoms or that couldn't enjoy sex using condoms and putting all the responsability on my shoulders. I think they were mostly self-centered.

Hormonal contraceptives do put the responsibility for birth control on the woman, but that can empower women in important ways. Women in abusive relationships can choose not to add another child to the mix and can do so without their partners knowledge if necessary. Women can ensure that unwanted sexual contact doesn’t result in unwanted pregnancies. While it would be nice if men took on some of the responsibilities of birth control I’m very glad that women can control their own reproductive systems even if men are unwilling or unable to take on that responsibility. 

Hormonal contraception certainly isn’t perfect (as stated above, I’m pretty thrilled to be done with it), but it doesn’t “sacrifice women’s health” anywhere near as much as the back to back pregnancies or back alley abortions women endured without it do. 

You could view it as women sacrificing their health so men can enjoy unprotected sex or you could view it as women making healthcare decisions that allow them to enjoy sex without risking pregnancy. Men have always enjoyed sex with minimal responsibility if that’s what they wanted - but before the sexual revolution it was with women who had little choice but to sell themselves and who bore the consequences and the shame alone. 

I agree that men should use condoms for casual sexual encounters, but their main purpose is to prevent disease, not pregnancy. I tell my daughter that condoms are for sexual health and the pill/implant/injection is for contraception, and that both are important. 

[HoneyBunny]

20 hours ago, Mellowing With Age said:

P.S Ken can't even fix the garage door opener. They wouldn't survive one day living like she wants others to live. 

I thought that also, when she posted a pic of the garage door opener. Her involvement in that entire process was, at most, to pull out a credit card to pay the service rep. When ours broke, it took an entire day spent with my husband as he scrounged parts from an old opener and gerryrigged a fix. When something breaks around here, I know how I’ll be spending my day.  LazyLori has never once, in her pampered life, even considered that. She just spends all day on the Internet telling others how to be a good wife.  The rest of us are actually doing it. 

[SongRed7]

18 hours ago, Alisamer said:

Exactly. She, of course, has never wanted for anything. Her kids, of course, got to participate in sports and activities. Including ballet. Pointe shoes are NOT cheap and have to be replaced frequently. Her kids went to college. She eats $14 a pound butter, and claims to shop only at "health food stores". Lori Alexander spends several weeks (to months) every year ON VACATION. She can up and fly out to visit a new grandchild whenever she chooses. She uses very expensive skin care products (not including grilled-cheese grease) daily. She buys Norwex cloths, Einkorn flour, and if I remember correctly she thinks $75 is "cheap" for a denim skirt. She happily pays more for food labeled "organic". I'd be willing to bet she STILL has a housekeeper.

Thank you for putting into words what I was thinking all day yesterday. She has the audacity to post pictures of her expensive cosmetics, supplements, ingredients, etc. but shames other women who work to feed their kids peanut butter sandwiches.  I don't begrudge anyone anything....but she is rubbing her wealth and privilege in the face of all the normal women whose lives are nothing like hers and then telling them they are doing it wrong and "hate God." . She is the 1%.   I'd like to see her live like that one fangirl Beccy...with seven kids, husband in and out of jail, living in a basement. 

 

[delphinium65]

6 hours ago, lilith said:

Hormonal contraceptives do put the responsibility for birth control on the woman

I may be in the minority on this, and I'm OK with that, but I refuse to hand over to a man the responsibility for keeping me from getting pregnant.  In theory I agree, the responsibility belongs on both,  and both should take steps to insure that, but personally, for me?  Nope.  I'm keeping that in my own hands.  

[ViolaSebastian]

New video up. She starts out by talking about her hair. She says that she doesn't like to go to the (and she forgets the word...) hairstylist, because they lean her back to wash her hair. Dude, Lori. Maybe you don't know this because you've never been poor, but they don't have to wash your hair to cut it. In fact, it's much cheaper if they just give you the old spray bottle OR, you can do what I do, and wash your hair right before and not dry it and walk in there with wet hair. Leaning back like that is hard on my back as well, but I've found that there's plenty of other options.

What I really notice, though, is that Lori is having trouble speaking. She's having trouble remembering words and using nonsense words. For example, she talks about how people "misgrew" submission...which doesn't make sense. I think she's looking for "misconstrue" but she never does get it.

She also goes back into women being in the police force and military. She's now saying that they should have counselors for women who are raped, instead of female police officers. The obvious problem with this is that the counselors would also be women, so I hardly see how that solves the problem. Also, apparently military men wouldn't have affairs if it weren't for women in the military. Because heaven knows they couldn't find women outside of their office. Certainly no one had affairs before women were in the workforce! 

 

[freealljs]

Lori does not look healthy in that video. The aging process has not been kind to her.

I agree, @ViolaSebastian that she can't remember words. She looked at times to be grasping for words or losing her train of thought.  It's sad to see, even Lori, look like she's losing her cognitive abilities.  

Lori can do what my MIL does.  She turned 82 this year and has a stylist come to her house every 2 months. She lives on a pension, but found someone affordable that comes out to people's houses to cut and color hair. 

[Alisamer]

32 minutes ago, ViolaSebastian said:

New video up. She starts out by talking about her hair. She says that she doesn't like to go to the (and she forgets the word...) hairstylist, because they lean her back to wash her hair. Dude, Lori. Maybe you don't know this because you've never been poor, but they don't have to wash your hair to cut it. In fact, it's much cheaper if they just give you the old spray bottle OR, you can do what I do, and wash your hair right before and not dry it and walk in there with wet hair. Leaning back like that is hard on my back as well, but I've found that there's plenty of other options.

What I really notice, though, is that Lori is having trouble speaking. She's having trouble remembering words and using nonsense words. For example, she talks about how people "misgrew" submission...which doesn't make sense. I think she's looking for "misconstrue" but she never does get it.

Lori. Poor people's hairstylists usually just spritz us with a spray bottle, before we get our $6 on sale Great Clips cut. 

I really, really think Lori (and Trump, but that's another thread) are showing serious signs of cognitive decline and have been for a while now. With her brain issues, that should be something they are watching for, and I really hope Ken or someone is noticing this as well. Maybe one of her sons who doesn't see her daily will notice and say something so she can get checked out. I know the idea of losing cognitive ability is terrifying and frustrating, but they really need to be getting her checked out and monitored. She's clearly not well, and because she has somehow built an audience she is now actively harming people.

[EowynW]

1 hour ago, HoneyBunny said:

I thought that also, when she posted a pic of the garage door opener. Her involvement in that entire process was, at most, to pull out a credit card to pay the service rep. When ours broke, it took an entire day spent with my husband as he scrounged parts from an old opener and gerryrigged a fix. When something breaks around here, I know how I’ll be spending my day.  LazyLori has never once, in her pampered life, even considered that. She just spends all day on the Internet telling others how to be a good wife.  The rest of us are actually doing it. 

We spend half our time outside of working fixing shit. Having little $$$ is incredibly frustrating and Lori obviously has never had to live like that. 

[wallysmommy]

@SongRed7Beccy is my favorite fangirl because she lives in my vicinity.  That has to be one hell of a basement since South Louisiana has such a high water table.  I'm guessing it's a finished room under a raised house, probably somebody's camp along one of the rivers or bayous.  She posted a few days ago about spouse's bodies belonging to one another.  I don't think I said it here, but I thought, no, a lot of the time your husband belongs to the St. Tammany Sheriff and DA.  Does Lori care about Beccy's suffering.  Absolutely not!

I also forget words, and I attribute that to my meds and stress.  But I'm a really good problem solver, like rigging my kitchen drawer tracks when the bracket broke in the back and they were sagging.  E6000 glue and two craft wood blocks glued at a 90 degree angle from each other.  Made a nice little shelf for the bracket to sit on.  Worked like a charm.  My point -- if I can do it myself, it gets done.  

More rambling...if Ken dies or is no longer able to care for himself independently, and Lori has to go live with someone, I think they're going to draw straws, short straw gets Dear Lori.

[ViolaSebastian]

1 minute ago, wallysmommy said:

I also forget words, and I attribute that to my meds and stress.  But I'm a really good problem solver, like rigging my kitchen drawer tracks when the bracket broke in the back and they were sagging.  E6000 glue and two craft wood blocks glued at a 90 degree angle from each other.  Made a nice little shelf for the bracket to sit on.  Worked like a charm.  My point -- if I can do it myself, it gets done.  

More rambling...if Ken dies or is no longer able to care for himself independently, and Lori has to go live with someone, I think they're going to draw straws, short straw gets Dear Lori.

I wouldn't think much of it if that was her only symptom, but she's exhibited other signs of cognitive decline. This one just seems very apparent and frankly a little scary. If I had to take in Lori Dearest....well, I would take my name out of contention and walk away. Ain't no way she'd be living in my house, especially if I had children. 

[wallysmommy]

The New York kid is safe because she can't take the cold.  The other 3 are left holding the "bag."